| Jamal Mohamed Barrow | |
| Office1: | Ambassador of Somalia to Nigeria |
| Term Start1: | 2 October 2019 |
| Birth Date: | 29 November 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Golweyn, Lower-shabelle |
| Spouse: | Su'ado Abdi Salah Late Fadumo sharif Munye(AUN) |
| Education: | Somali National University Moi University |
Jamal Mohamed Barrow (Somali: Jamaal Maxamed Barrow, Arabic: جمال محمد بارو) is a diplomat from Somalia. He was born in Golweyn, a village in lower Shabelle region, Somalia, on 1 July 1957. He hasmarried with a number of children.He gained his first degree in Journalism in the Faculty of Journalism of the Somalia NationalUniversity in 1984 and he did his second degree in Business Administration in Moi University inNairobi, Kenya, in 2006.[1] Barrow is the Ambassador of Somalia to Nigeria, based at the Somali embassy in Nigeria.[2] In October 2019,he was appointed as the new Somali Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Hebecame the first ambassador accredited to Nigeria since the collapse of the centralgovernment of Somalia in 1991.[3] Mr. Barrow was Somalia's Deputy Foreign Affairs minister between December 2012 and November, 2013.
Professionally, from 1995 to 2020, he held a number of positions which include
facilitated numerous sessions of workshops on peace building and conflict resolution,leadership, gender & development, team building, community development andmobilization, project management, entrepreneurship, fundraising, Participatory RuralAppraisal (PRA), ToT, project evaluation and monitoring, strategic planning, boardmanagement, human rights and democracy, networking, and customer services given tovarious Somali Society organizations including, community elders, local authorities,teachers, youth groups, parliament members, women groups like Coalition of Grass-rootWomen organizations, SAACID Voluntary Organization, and CORD as well as otherNGOs/CBOs and networks
firm called Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC). The center’s focus was onproving with consultant and training services to both governmental and nongovernmental institutions. From 2002 – 2011, CTC established working relationshipwith a various international and local organizations including UN agencies
Barrow developed a concept on establishing the NATIONAL Disaster ManagementAuthority and the idea had been accepted by the then President, Mr. Sharif SheikhAhmed and his prime minister, Mr Abdiweli Ahmed Gas. Then, Ambassador Barrowwas mandated to translate the concept into workable organizational document. Then, thedisaster management authority was officially launched in the end of 2011. AmbassadorBarrow was appointed the deputy chair of the entity. Later, in 2017, the DisasterManagement Authority was promoted to ministerial level, becoming Ministry ofHumanitarian and Disaster Management of the Federal Republic of Somalia
spearheading team of the presidential election campaign of Mr. Hassan Sheikh, whosucceeded in the presidential contest in the 2012. In October 2012, Mr. Hassan tookover the power from Mr. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. In Hassan Sheikh’s government,Ambassador Barrow was appointed as the deputy minister of the Foreign Affairs and hewas holding this position only for one year. In August 2014, President Hassan Sheikhappointed Ambassador Barrow as his advisor on the parliament and cabinet affairs. InApril 2015, the cabinet approved that Ambassador Barrow to be the second ambassadorthat government of Somalia sent to the Republic of South Africa and had been there forfour years. During the four year, Ambassador Barrow also was in charge seven othercountries in the southern Africa region as a non-resident ambassador. In October 2019,he was appointed as the new Somali Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Hebecame the first ambassador accredited to Nigeria since the collapse of the centralgovernment of Somalia in 1991.
Networking and Participation conference and seminars
Since 1995 Ambassador Jamal Mohamed Barrow became part of several international andnational networks in which he played significant roles. He had also participated in a number ofinternational forums and seminars.